Statistics contained in the latest UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review 2011-2012 indicate that softwood lumber consumption in the UNECE region (Europe, North America and former CIS countries) remained on its upward path in 2011. ...
Tags: market view, Softwood lumber
Chicago,US:Pieces by two students from Illinois Institute of Technology,Annie Hutches and Kuanhoa Chen,were named'best in show'during recent judging of the Idea Tree Exhibit.The furnishing pieces were made of wood from a single tree that ...
Tags: Furniture, Idea, Tree, Furnishing
West Fraser Timber Co. And Western Forest Products Inc. Are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U. S. Housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber ...
Tags: market view, lumber
Diversified Finnish forest products group Vapo reported a 6.5% drop in interim turnover, due to a decline in activity across its various business areas, but increased profits by around 2%. Group sales for the six months to July were ...
Tags: market view, forest products
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The World Resources Institute has launched the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool to help wood products buyers assess illegal logging risks. The WRI, an environmental think tank based here, said the tool is ...
Tags: Illegal Logging
The U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, in Madison, says it's opening a $1.7 million pilot plant that will support an emerging market for wood products derived from nanotechnology. The products could be stronger than Kevlar and lighter than ...
Tags: market view, Forest Products, nanomaterial
Modern practices used in today's coastal B. C. Forestry sector have evolved substantially throughout the years. Nevertheless, old stereotypes die hard, and one of the biggest misconceptions is that our forest industry is dirty, dangerous ...
Tags: market view, Forestry
Reports about the future of the Canadian paper products industry will remain gloomy until a viable new application for wood fibre is found, an analyst said Monday. The Conference Board of Canada reported Monday the soaring popularity of ...
Tags: market view, wood fibre
The Northeast Kingdom is the remotest part of Vermont, but it's also deeply intertwined in the global economy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the forest products industry. Many sawmills are dark and the paper companies have left. ...
Tags: market view, Forest
THE construction industry will be able to count on the supply of plantation softwood timber increasing by about 27 per cent over the next 20-30 years. But the volume of plantation hardwood for similar and higher value use will lag far ...
Tags: market view, timber
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -Universal Forest Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UFPI) today announced that a subsidiary of the Company has purchased certain assets of Haleyville, Ala. -based MSR Forest Products, LLC, a supplier of roof trusses and ...
Tags: market view, Forest Products
Led by British Columbia, Canada emerged as the largest exporter of lumber in the world to China in 2011, surpassing Russia as the Middle Kingdom's No. 1 source for lumber. "We are king of the hill, " Gerry Van Leeuwen, of the Vancouver ...
Tags: market view, lumber
Four thousand cabinets a day. That’s the current output at Armstrong Cabinet Products, a division of Armstrong World Industries. In business since 1860, Armstrong World entered the wood products industry in 1998 following its ...
Tags: market view, Cabinet
Although, the eu ban illegal timber imports and trade bill until 2013 to implement, but, ikea (China) has finalized the furniture of Russian imports from next year 100% get FSC authentication raw material forest, how to reside, the home ...
{ISSUE} Soaring energy prices are thinning profit margins in the transport sector and increasing operational costs in many manufacturing industries {SHIFT} Turning wood waste into bio-fuel helps industry find a cost-effective and ...
Tags: market view, wood waste, bio-fuel